10 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them."

- Ralph Marston

"I don’t understand why everyone is afraid of failing when it hurts so much more to miss out on everything that you dream of because you lack the courage to try."

- Mel Robbins

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

- Louis L’Amour

"Speak positive words into your life every single morning. Think big. Think healing. Think success. Think peace. Think happiness. Think growth mindset. Always start the day with positive energy. You deserve it."

- Sylvester Mcnutt

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The things you regret most in life are the risks you didn’t take."

- Farhan Masood

"If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life."

- Marc Anthony

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence."

- Jay Bilas

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere."

- Anne Lamott

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

- Simon Sinek

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"You’ve got today, and today is all you need to start."

- Jon Acuff

"The most effective way to do it is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

"Do or do not; there is no try."

- Yoda

"Two things you are in total control of in life are your attitude and your effort."

- Billy Cox

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start."

- Simon Sinek

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow."

- William James

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"That lesson will repeat itself until you learn it."

- Steven Bartlett

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."

- Audre Lorde

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

- Edgar Degas

"No one knows what they’re doing. Nobody. Not even the ones with degrees, and big job titles, and more things than you. Not even the people on your vision board. Everyone is just trying loudly, failing loudly, and trying again. And so should you."

- Kaya Nova

"Don’t let “this is the best I’ve ever had” keep you in a place, a job, or a relationship that is no longer for you. It may be the best you’ve ever had but that does not mean it’s as good as it gets. There is more. Believe in more."

- Kemi Marie

"Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

"How we react to times of uncertainty, and whether we make decisions based in love or fear, can change the course of our life. Champions aren’t made when the game is easy. In any area of life."

- Jaime Kern Lima

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

- Brené Brown

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is never a bad time to start a business — unless you want to start a mediocre one."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"There’s a way to do it better. Find it."

- Thomas Edison

"Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren’t willing to look like a foolish beginner, you’ll never become a graceful master."

- Ed Latimore

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed at imitation."

- Herman Melville

"He who is brave is free."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

- Émile Zola

"This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before."

- Maya Angelou

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

- Neal Peart

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it."

- Chinua Achebe

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Have a vision. Be demanding."

- Colin Powell

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

- Pope John Paul II

"Don’t be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing."

- Mike Volpe

"Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have."

- Jonah Sachs

"Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day."

- Beth Comstock

"The person who gives the value first has the leverage."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart."

- Joe Chernov

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

- Anaïs Nin

"Do not seize the day and see it only as it is. Instead, welcome the day and see it as it can be."

- J. Carter McKinley

"I start where the last man left off."

- Thomas Edison

"The great artist is the simplifier."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

- Aristotle

"A writer is a world trapped in a person."

- Victor Hugo

"Writing is its own reward."

- Henry Miller

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

"The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing."

- Tom Fishburne

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"Content is King but engagement is Queen, and the lady rules the house!"

- Mari Smith

"I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life."

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative."

- Elmore Leonard

"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."

- Pablo Picasso

"Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value."

- Nick Besbeas

"No is a complete sentence."

- Anne Lamott

"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

- Paul Gauguin

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"Stop telling yourself that you’re not qualified, good enough, or worthy. Growth happens when you start doing the things that you’re not qualified to do."